NEW DELHI, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 5: Smriti Irani, Minister of Human Resource Development during the National Teacher Awards distribution ceremony 2014 at Vigyan Bhawan on September 5, 2015 in New Delhi, India. Instituted in 1958, the National Award to Teachers are given away by the President of India on 5th September (Teacher's Day) every year to give public recognition to meritorious teachers working in primary, middle and secondary schools. Altogether there are 374 awards out of which 20 awards are reserved for Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic teachers. Each State/Union Territory/Organization has an earmarked quota based on the number of teachers. (Photo by Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

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ABVP students of Lucknow University disrupted classes, held protests, burnt a professor's effigy on the campus. His mistake? He had shared the article “Umar Khalid, my son”, from The Indian Express on his Facebook page.

A day after a media report quoted Chidambaram expressing doubts over Afzal Guru’s role in the 2001 Parliament attack, the Kashmiri separatist’s wife slammed the Congress leader saying he should have issued such statements earlier when her husband’s execution could have been stopped.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that Pervez Musharraf should be tried for treason for subverting the Constitution in 2007. This came a day after the former president went to court to seek permission to go abroad for medical treatment.

Opinion

Price subsidies have been a very important part of the Indian government’s plan of trying to bring down poverty in the country. This entails selling commodities like rice, wheat and kerosene, at a price significantly lower than the market price through the public distribution system. But the question is, do these subsidies work? In HuffPost India, Vivek Kaul makes a compelling case for India to move to cash transfer of subsidies.

BJP’s contradictions on Kashmir are mounting. “On the one hand, the Modi government will engage (rightly so) those whose politics has for decades demanded ‘Azaadi’ from India (Hurriyat literally means liberty/freedom); on the other hand, it will jail students who organised a university event where similar slogans were raised — and going by the evidence so far — certainly not by Kanhaiya Kumar, the first young man to be imprisoned,” writes Barkha Dutt in the Hindustan Times.

The Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom’ resonates in the turbulent times in India. “Take two slogans. One says, “we are no longer just a vote, a number, or a thing. We are young, the future is ours.” The other goes, “why does the government not judge its own crimes?” It may seem as though both these statements belong to the crisis that has been unfolding over the past fortnight in India,” writes Dipti Kharude in The Hindu.